>Hm. OK, that is... not borne out by the actual show, in a
>number of cases, but then again, no latter-day revisiting of that era
>has honored the "only Enterprise people wear the arrowhead
>insignia" thing either, so I guess turnabout is fair play.

I actually sat here for a few minutes trying to remember which episodes in post-TOS series up to PIC that actually had actors in the uniforms. And the only ones that came to mind were "Trials and Tribble-ations" in DS9 and "In A Mirror, Darkly" in ENT, the former of which took place on Enterprise and the latter was aboard Defiant and actually went so far as to recreate the uniforms and positions of the actors from "The Tholian Web."

Abrams hand-waved away the matter by having the Kelvin crew sporting the arrowhead insignia and saying Starfleet memorialized the loss and sacrifice by adopting said insignia for the entire fleet, so that really leaves DISCO as the oddball in the canon. But since there are greater issues with the visual style of the series, I'm willing to give them a mulligan on it.

>I love the laser pistol prop from "The Cage", mainly because if you
>look at it up close, it's clearly made out of bits of an
>early-20th-century manual typewriter. I used to have a toy replica of
>one, and it was even obvious in that. :)

One of those little bits that were forced by the necessity of working on a shoe-string budget that ended up becoming memorable decades later.

>Hm. Well, like I say, I have yet to hear anything about the show that
>makes me want to reconsider my decision not to watch it.

I think the problems with the series could be boiled down to two words: Michael Burnham. Remember when Jeri Ryan joined the cast at the mid-point of VOY's run as Seven and quickly became such a dominant character that fans complained she was crowding out the rest of the cast? Now imagine if the series had started with Seven first joining the crew and written with her as the focal character. And front-loaded her tragic backstory so that there was no real mystery to the character whatsoever.

>I'll tell you one thing for free, I don't want to work with that Lorca
>guy again. He's got "future war criminal" written all over
>him.

Uhhh...